[aklug] Re: Fast Downloads in Anchorage

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Damien Hull <dhull@section9.us> wrote:

> It's nice that the ISP's like GCI are offering blazing fast internet. It
> just sucks that I can't connect at that speed.
>

Last mile problems aside, there's the ongoing issue of TCP throughput vs.
latency. For many destinations we here in AK are dealing with what is
effectively transcontinental latency. A consumer is going to have
difficulty saturating that link (in a non-DDOS scenario, tnx Leif), under
"normal" use, even with a sturdy customer edge router.

Keeping traffic local whenever possible, there is quite a bit of traffic to
eyeball networks that is served in-state, at least 30%. That's the stuff
you're going to see good single-stream TCP bandwidth on.

I'm not so convinced it's ISP hell, or they/we wouldn't offer faster
connections. ISPs exist to move bits, the more the better, the more the
cheaper per bit. Perhaps a little purgatory. From a practical perspective,
a 1 gig connection is not, for most customers, going to have them consuming
4x the transit bandwidth of a 250 meg.

But I do not speak ex-cathedra and am willing to be wrong. A pestilence of
torrentors (that is the right collective noun, no?) can throw off the math.
I'm seeing the shift back from P2P toward CDN traffic.

That's my ~.00007 BTC

jermudgeon

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Received on Mon Sep 14 21:03:51 2015